ANT 260 - Topics: Language, Culture, and Power (1)

How does language shape social life? Together we will examine language practices with attention to the production of social power. Using the tools of linguistic anthropology, we explore a variety of cultural contexts in order to better understand how language creates, reproduces, and sometimes challenges social identity, group belonging, and patterns of inequality. Language enables and shapes our social worlds. Our efforts will help us better understand the significance of language in our own interactions and further the goal of better understanding how language contributes to both the construction of, and challenges to, ongoing patterns of social inequality. Prerequisite: ANT 101 OR SOC 101
(Social Science)